Zoltar the Fortune Teller is the coin-operated machine in the movie "Big" that changed Tom Hanks' character into a grown-up. The publicity from the movie created a market for the machine, and copies ...

In the United States, many 20th-century amusement parks had fortune teller machines that enticed customers. Put a coin (or, in later years, a dollar bill) in the slot, and the life-size figure in the ...

Zoltar says, “If you hear an onion ring, answer it.” The fortune telling machine made famous in the 1988 movie “Big” staring Tom Hanks has oodles of wisdom to dispense for a few bucks. Now, the ...

An antique Gypsy fortune teller machine, that sat for decades in a Virginia City, Mont., restaurant and has received multimillion dollar offers from curators including magician David Copperfield.

A favorite draw in the cavernous waiting lobby of fun and folksy White Fence Farm fried chicken restaurant in Romeoville, Ill., is an antique fortune-telling machine that, with a drop of a coin, ...